‘‘If you’re not there, you just won’t get it.’’

‘We got together to fill what we saw as a lack of minority representation in comics," Denys Cowan.

In 1993, independent publishing company, Milestone Media is created by the four founding members: Derek T. Dingle, Dwayne McDuffie, Denys Cowan, and Michael Davis. Brown quotes McDuffie on what the main goal of the company is, "to increase the diversity of the comics industry by reflecting the complexity and the diversity of the real world that we all live in. We could have done just African American comics because that is obviously the experience that we understand best, but we realize that that is only one of many possible viewpoints that we want to bring forward for our readers (29)." The company ended in 1997.

Brown, Jeffrey A. Black Superheroes, Milestone Comics, and Their Fans Milestone Comics and Their Fans. University Press of Mississippi, 2000.